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SPECIFICATION forming part oi Letters Patent No. 385,285, dated June 26, 1888.

Application filed November 29, 1886. Serial No. 220,163.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBURTIOE O. SLENTZ, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Canton, county of Stark, State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Grain-Binding Harvesters, of which the following'is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in graiirbinding harvesters; and it consists in providing means by which the packers and binding mechanism may be actuated during the raising, lowering, or folding movements of the binder parts about a pivotal point outside of the center of the packer and binder actuating shaft.

My invention also relates to and consists in providing a storm deck that maybe contracted, expanded, and folded to adapt it to the up ward, downward, and folding movements of the binder.

My invention also consists of and relates to the detail and combination of parts as described and set forth in the specification and claims.

As my invention is applicable to many of the well-known forms of grain-binding harvesters now'in use, I will proceed to describe my improvements, referring only to the harvester parts as conjnnctional thereto.

Figure 1 is an isometrical View of a fragment of a harvester-frame, showing my improvements as embodied in a binder in normal position. Fig. 2 is same view showing the parts folded up. Fig. 3 is a sectional View of the means used for transmitting power from the harvester-shaft to the packer and binder actuating shaft. Fig. 4 is a view of two fragments of the stornrdeck, showing the means employed by which the storm-deck may be contracted, expanded, and folded, as hereinafter described. Fig. 5 is an end elevation.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the figures of the drawmgs.

Letters A represent the sills of the harvesterframe; 13, the cross-beams; O, the binder-sup porting frame; 0, the elevator side-boards.

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D is a section of the harvester-sickle-driving shaft supported in brackets a.

E is a binder-supporting shaft, to which the binder-frame F has a pivotal connection and about which the binder may be swung. Said shaft E is supported by the brackets a, secured to the frame-pieces G. The packer and binder actuating shaft G is supported by and journaled in the binder-frame F. A portion of this shaft is square, as shown in Fig. 3, on which there is loosely mounted a sprocketwheel, H, in the hub of which there is an annular groove, o in which there is fitted a yoke, a, having an arm, a", extended and attached to the shaft E. By this means the wheel H is held in position, allowing the shaft G to move through the wheel H as the binder is moved forward or back to adapt it to the cut grain to be bound.

Letters I and J represent sprocket-wheels, thatmaybe integral, having one common hub, or clutched together, if preferred. Said wheels rotate about a sleeve, K, fixed to the support ing-shaft E.

On shaft D, which has a geared connection with and may be rotated by the harvesterdriving wheel, (not shown in the drawings of this application,) there is mounted a sprocket- WI16GI,"L which is connected with wheel .l by the chain M, and by said chain the wheel J may be rotated about the shaft E. The wheel I, integral therewith or coupled thereto, may be rotated in like manner. The sprocket wheels I and H are connected by the chain N, by which the wheel H and the packer and binder actuating shaft may be rotated. Motion being imparted from the shaft D may be conveyed by the chain M to the wheel J, and from the wheel I by chain N to the wheel H and shaft G, thus securing a continuous rotary movement to the shaft G and the proper movement to the binder, allowing the binder to be raised or lowered or folded up during the progressive movement and operation of the machine, as the packer and binder actuatingshaft and its driving-wheel H are rotated abouta common supporting-center without in terrupting or disengaging the means employed to secure a continuous movement of the shaft G; or, if preferred, the wheels I and J may be rigidly connected to the shaft E, which may rotate in journal-bearings provided in the brackets a.

To allow of the raising and folding movement of the binder or binder-frame, a binder or grain deck is provided composed of two sections, 0 and P. Section 0 is rigidly connected to the lower part, a of the binderframe standard F, (see Fig. 2,) and may be rotated about the binder-supporting bar E with the binder-frame, for the purpose of raising the binder, as hereinbefore mentioned. Section P is supported by crossbar a, which is connected to and supported by the elevator side-board C. The two sections 0 and P are connected by a grasping finger, a secured upon section P and reaching down under Sec tion 0, so as to allow section 0 to slide through between the finger (L and the lower edge of section P, as shown in Fig. 2. There is also provided a storm-deck composed of two sections, R and S, adapted to fold together, as shown in Fig. 2. In Fig. 4 is shown a fragment of sections R and S, the lower edge of section R having means provided by which it may be hinged to or about the bar T of the binder-frame. In this case aplate, U, having a groove, (1, is provided, having at its outer end a ring, (I, to embrace the bar T, forming a hinge connection thereto. Section S has a hinged-connection, d, with the harvesterframe piece V, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and is provided with a T-shaped plate or slide, W, adapted to fit into the groove d in plate U on section B. These parts are put together as shown in Fig. 1, and when the binder is raised the plate U will slide up on the plate W, as shown in Fig. 2, and when the binder is in operation the deck, formed of the sections, as stated, may be contracted or expanded, as the case may be, covering the space between the bar T-and the top of the harvester-frame piece V, or may be folded by the raising of the binder, as shown in Fig. 2.

To raise and fold the binder as hereinbefore mentioned, there is provided a cable or cord, d and Windlass d By turning the crank d the cord d", one end of which is attached to the binder-frame and the other to the Windlass, may be wound about the windlass and the binder raised or lowered, as desired, or folded up during the progressive movement and operation of the-machine, or for convenience in passing obstructions. When down, the binder may rest on the supports d,- but I do not regard the supports (1 necessary, as the binder may be carried on the cord or cable d Having thus fully described the nature and object of my invention, what I claim, and de sire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a grain-binding harvester, the combination, with the harvester-frame, of a bindersupporting frame having a hinged connection with the harvester-frame at a point outside of the center of the binder and packer actuating shaft, and means for raising and loweringthe binder-deck during the progressive movement of the machine, whereby the binder may be raised to pass obstructions or folded over upon the machine and secured in either elevated or depressed adjustment, substantially as set forth.

2. In a grain-binding harvester, the combination, with a binder-frame pivotally secured to a harvester and a packer and binder actuating shaft mounted in said frame, of gearing by which said shaft may be rotated about its own center, while it is moved bodily with the binder-frame as the latter is being moved about its pivot to the harvester'frame.

3. The combination, in agrain-bindingharvester, of a binder-supporting frame having a pivotal connection with the harvester-frame, a packer and binder actuating shaft mounted in said binder-supporting frame, a wheel, H, carried by and adapted to rotate said packer and binder shaft, and the wheels I and J, adapted to be rotated about a center corresponding with that of the pivotal connection of the binder-supporting frame with the barvester-frame and geared to wheel H, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination, in agrain-binding harvester, of a pivotal binder-frame anda stormdeck adapted to be contracted and expanded to cover the space over the grain-deck between the binder-frame and the upper part of the harvester-frame as the binder is raised or lowered, substantially as shown, and for the purpose set forth.

5. In a grain-binding harvester, the combination of a pivoted binder-frame and a stunnideck, one end secured to the harvester anal); other to the binder, and adapted to be contracted or expanded over the grain-deck with the raising, lowering, or folding of the binder, substantially as set forth.

6. In a grain-binding harvester, the combination, with the pivoted binder-frame, of the expansible storm-deck composed of two sections, one section pivoted to the binder-frame and the other section to the harvester-frame, the said sections having interlocking mechanism,whereby theyare connected to each other, so as to slide one upon the other as the binder is folded, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 23d day of November, A. D. 1886.

ALBURTIOE O. SLENTZ. Witnesses:

CHAS. R. MILLER, W. K. MILLER. 

